Pierre Patry (November 2, 1933 – June 7, 2014) was a Canadian film director and screenwriter.
Biography Born in Hull, Quebec, Patry began his career in the theatre as an actor and a playwright. He was a founding member of the Canadian Association of Amateur Theatre. He joined the National Film Board of Canada in 1957 as a writer on the Panoramique series. Patry was a major force in the beginning of the Quebec feature-film industry in the sixties. He directed three features, most notably Trouble-Maker (Trouble fête) in 1964.
He left the NFB in 1963 to co-found the film cooperative Coopératio with Roger Blais and Jean-Claude Lord. However, the company shut down after five years because of systemic problems in the financing and distribution of feature films.
In 1981 he was a major player in the development of the French language educational television station Canal Savoir.
Patri died on June 7, 2014.
Filmography
As director
Fiction Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine - 1962, short Françoise (Il y eut un soir... il y eut un matin) - 1964, short (re-released as part of the 1964 anthology film Trois Femmes) Trouble-Maker (Trouble fête) - 1964 Caïn (Les Marcheurs de la nuit) - 1965 Rope Around the Neck (La corde au cou) - 1965
Documentaries Eye Witness No. 99 (Documentary series Co-Directed with Hector Lemieux and Jacques Bobet, 1958) (Segment La roulotte) Germaine Guèvremont romancière (Short film, 1959) Les petites soeurs (Short film, 1959) Le chanoine Lionel Groulx, historien (Short film, 1960) Collèges contemporain (Short film, 1961) Croisements et profits (Short film Co-Directed with Clément Perron, 1961) Loisirs (Short film Co-Directed with Clément Perron, 1962) Petit discours de la méthode (Short film Co-Directed with Claude Jutra, 1963) Ghosts of a River (Trois hommes au mille carré) 1966 (Short film Co-Directed with Jacques Kasma, 1966) Shapp for Governor (Short film Co-Directed with Morten Parker, 1966) Infirmière de nuit (Short film, 1966)
As writer The Little Sisters (Les petites soeurs) - 1959 Germaine Guèvremont, romancière - 1959 Collège contemporain - 1960 Le grand duc - 1959–1963 Le chanoine Lionel Groulx, historien - 1960 Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine - 1962 Ti-Jean caribou - 1963–1966 Trouble-Maker (Trouble fête) - 1964 Rope Around the Neck (La corde au cou) - 1965
As producer Françoise (Il y eut un soir... il y eut un matin) - 1964 Trouble-Maker (Trouble fête) - 1964 Rope Around the Neck (La corde au cou) - 1964 Caïn (Les Marcheurs du matin) - 1965 Deliver Us from Evil (Délivrez-nous du mal) (1966) Dust from Underground (Poussière sur la ville) - 1968 Between Salt and Sweet Water (Entre la mer et l'eau douce) - 1968 A Great Big Thing - 1968 The Doves (Les Colombes) - 1972
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